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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:41:20 MST
  2. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  3. Date: 11 Oct 1995 14:24:35 GMT
  4. From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
  5. Message-Id: <45gk33$c72@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
  6. Organization: scant
  7. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  8. References: <MSFRIEDM.95Sep28105413@bingster.us.oracle.com>, <KRISHNA.95Oct9154704@shamu.csd.sgi.com>, <45gapn$cv5@access5.digex.net>
  9. Reply-To: tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
  10. Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. :-> In comp.lang.perl.misc, pperucci@access5.digex.net (Phil Perucci) writes:
  14. :Or...           Expect!
  15. :
  16. :While Perl excels at text-processing, Expect (Tcl-based) is intended for
  17. :"interaction automation".  
  18.  
  19. Well, perl is a language, and expect is an application.  These aren't the
  20. same thing.  You're comparing fields with fungus.
  21.  
  22. There is, however, a perl applications library for expect stuff. Son 
  23. of Chat2, is Eric Arnold @ Sun's new expect-like library.
  24.  
  25. --tom
  26.